The role involves leading global transformation projects, building data pipelines in Azure Databricks, designing cloud infrastructure, and managing stakeholders in an Agile environment.
Description and Requirements
Position Summary
The MetLife Corporate Technology (CT) organization is evolving to enable MetLife's New Frontier strategy. With a strong vision in place, we are a global function focused on driving digital technology strategies for key corporate functions within MetLife including, Finance, Actuarial, Reinsurance, Legal, Human Resources, Employee Experience, Risk, Treasury, Audit and Compliance. In partnership with our business leaders, we develop and deliver seamless technology experiences to our employees across the entire employee lifecycle. Our vision and mission is to create innovative, transformative and contemporary technology solutions to empower our leaders and employees so they can focus on what matters most, our customers. We are technologists with strong business acumen focused on developing our talent to continually transform and innovate.
As part of Tech Talent Transformation (T3) agenda, MetLife is establishing a Technology Center in India. This technology center will perform as an integrated organization between onshore, offshore, and strategic vendor partners in an Agile delivery model.
We are seeking a highly skilled hands-on delivery engineer who is responsible for partnering with Internal Audit Leaders, third party vendors and IT Executives to lead global transformation projects with the goal of attracting, developing and retaining talent across the organization. This position will be a part of a fast-paced IT team leveraging technology expertise that spans across Java, REACT, Python, Azure and AI.
He/she should be a strategic thinker, an effective communicator, and an expert in technological development.
Key Relationships
Internal Stake Holder - Corporate Technology teams and India Corporate Technology AVP
Key Responsibilities
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
Candidate Qualifications:
Education:
• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Information Systems or related field
Experience:
Required:
• 5+ years of experience in delivering Digital solutions.
• 4+ Years of experience in Cloud engineering.
• Familiar with technology landscape supporting integration solutions such as Azure, Databricks, API Management
• Proficient with Azure services.
• Solid experience with SQL, python, and Spark-based data processing.
• Knowledge of CI/CD practices using Azure DevOps and GitHub actions.
• Experience with MS Project, Visio, Excel, PowerPoint and related project delivery utilities.
• Azure Cloud and Databricks Certifications
Preferred:
• Experience supporting internal functions (Finance, Audit and Controls )
• Experience managing vendors to SLA's.
• Proven experience collaborating with peers to establish best practices to achieve high service levels.
Skills and Competencies:
Competencies
• Communication: Ability to influence and help communicate the organization's direction and ensure results are achieved
• Collaboration: Proven track record of building collaborative partnerships and ability to operate effectively in a global environment
• People Management: Inspiring, motivating and leading diverse and distributed teams
• Diverse environment: Can-do attitude and ability to work in a high paced environment
About MetLife
Recognized on Fortune magazine's list of the 2025 "World's Most Admired Companies" and Fortune World's 25 Best Workplaces™ for 2024, MetLife , through its subsidiaries and affiliates, is one of the world's leading financial services companies; providing insurance, annuities, employee benefits and asset management to individual and institutional customers. With operations in more than 40 markets, we hold leading positions in the United States, Latin America, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.
Our purpose is simple - to help our colleagues, customers, communities, and the world at large create a more confident future. United by purpose and guided by empathy, we're inspired to transform the next century in financial services.
At MetLife, it's #AllTogetherPossible . Join us!
#BI-Hybrid
Position Summary
The MetLife Corporate Technology (CT) organization is evolving to enable MetLife's New Frontier strategy. With a strong vision in place, we are a global function focused on driving digital technology strategies for key corporate functions within MetLife including, Finance, Actuarial, Reinsurance, Legal, Human Resources, Employee Experience, Risk, Treasury, Audit and Compliance. In partnership with our business leaders, we develop and deliver seamless technology experiences to our employees across the entire employee lifecycle. Our vision and mission is to create innovative, transformative and contemporary technology solutions to empower our leaders and employees so they can focus on what matters most, our customers. We are technologists with strong business acumen focused on developing our talent to continually transform and innovate.
As part of Tech Talent Transformation (T3) agenda, MetLife is establishing a Technology Center in India. This technology center will perform as an integrated organization between onshore, offshore, and strategic vendor partners in an Agile delivery model.
We are seeking a highly skilled hands-on delivery engineer who is responsible for partnering with Internal Audit Leaders, third party vendors and IT Executives to lead global transformation projects with the goal of attracting, developing and retaining talent across the organization. This position will be a part of a fast-paced IT team leveraging technology expertise that spans across Java, REACT, Python, Azure and AI.
He/she should be a strategic thinker, an effective communicator, and an expert in technological development.
Key Relationships
Internal Stake Holder - Corporate Technology teams and India Corporate Technology AVP
Key Responsibilities
- Build, Optimize, and maintain data pipelines and notebooks in Azure Databricks.
- Design and maintain cloud infrastructure components using Azure services.
- Manage cluster configurations, monitor job performance and ensure high availability, performance and security of Azure-based solutions.
- Develop CI/CD pipelines for Databricks notebooks and Azure Services.
- Stakeholder Management - Managing key business stakeholders to deliver the required technology capabilities to support the digital transformation agenda. Driving prioritization of the product backlog. This includes managing key vendors providing the resources, SaaS & other capabilities.
- Ways of Working - Adoption of the Agile ways of working in the software delivery lifecycle.
- E2E Software Lifecycle Management (Architecture, Design, Development, Testing & Production)
- Drive the resolution and troubleshooting of issues during development and post- production support.
- Responsible to Support Day-to-day business enhancements.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
Candidate Qualifications:
Education:
• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Information Systems or related field
Experience:
Required:
• 5+ years of experience in delivering Digital solutions.
• 4+ Years of experience in Cloud engineering.
• Familiar with technology landscape supporting integration solutions such as Azure, Databricks, API Management
• Proficient with Azure services.
• Solid experience with SQL, python, and Spark-based data processing.
• Knowledge of CI/CD practices using Azure DevOps and GitHub actions.
• Experience with MS Project, Visio, Excel, PowerPoint and related project delivery utilities.
• Azure Cloud and Databricks Certifications
Preferred:
• Experience supporting internal functions (Finance, Audit and Controls )
• Experience managing vendors to SLA's.
• Proven experience collaborating with peers to establish best practices to achieve high service levels.
Skills and Competencies:
Competencies
• Communication: Ability to influence and help communicate the organization's direction and ensure results are achieved
• Collaboration: Proven track record of building collaborative partnerships and ability to operate effectively in a global environment
• People Management: Inspiring, motivating and leading diverse and distributed teams
• Diverse environment: Can-do attitude and ability to work in a high paced environment
About MetLife
Recognized on Fortune magazine's list of the 2025 "World's Most Admired Companies" and Fortune World's 25 Best Workplaces™ for 2024, MetLife , through its subsidiaries and affiliates, is one of the world's leading financial services companies; providing insurance, annuities, employee benefits and asset management to individual and institutional customers. With operations in more than 40 markets, we hold leading positions in the United States, Latin America, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.
Our purpose is simple - to help our colleagues, customers, communities, and the world at large create a more confident future. United by purpose and guided by empathy, we're inspired to transform the next century in financial services.
At MetLife, it's #AllTogetherPossible . Join us!
#BI-Hybrid
Top Skills
AI
Azure
Azure Databricks
Azure Devops
Ci/Cd
Git
Java
Python
React
Spark
SQL
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